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Local academic group urges board to keep repeal of 50% grading floor, warns it misrepresents student performance
Summary
At the March 10 meeting, Bryce Fiedler of the Carolina's Academic Leadership Network urged the Sumter School District board to maintain its recent repeal of the 50% grading floor, saying the policy inflates grades for struggling students and lowers expectations.
Bryce Fiedler, director of the Carolina's Academic Leadership Network, urged the Sumter School District Board of Trustees at its March 10 meeting to keep the district’s repeal of a 50% grading floor, saying reinstating the policy would give parents an inaccurate view of student performance and lower expectations for students.
Fiedler told trustees the district’s repeal of the policy last year had been welcomed by many parents and teachers and that, when surveyed, more than 82% of district…
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